MEXICO CITY — President Vicente Fox’s party will again win Mexico’s presidency, Germany will win the World Cup and U.S. President George W. Bush will try to win back the American public with big spending on space travel.

Mexico’s constitution bars Fox from seeking a second, six-year term. The July 2 presidential election’s front-runner in most public opinion polls is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who stepped down as Mexico City mayor last year to run for president with the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.

Gaining ground, according to the astrologer, is Felipe Calderon, who served as Fox’s energy secretary before securing the nomination of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.

Vazquez said Calderon will get a boost from Mexico’s strong economy and deep-pocketed supporters.

“I don’t like it because evidently the party is the extreme right of the government. Behind the PAN is religion, and that’s our competition,” he said, then laughed and added: “We are not competition for them, but they are competition for us.”

Bowing out of the race before the election, Vazquez said, will be Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which controlled the presidency from its founding in 1929 until losing to Fox in 2000.

“I’m not saying he’s going to die, but something’s going to happen,” Vazquez said of Madrazo.

He hinted that an especially negative campaign could force Madrazo to drop out, saying “starting this month, the attacks between the parties are going to be terrible.”

Vazquez has been making annual predictions based on tarot card readings and his scrutiny of the stars since 1980, according to his Web site. He has become famous in recent years for making incorrect sports predictions.

That could be bad news for World Cup host Germany, who Vazquez claimed would top Brazil in the final.

He predicted doom for the U.S. auto industry that would spark widespread unemployment this year.

and said rising interest rates will cripple the American stock market.

Oil prices will remain high but not top 2005 levels, and an even more devastating hurricane season than last year’s record number of storms will hit Central America especially hard, he said.

Bush will try to reverse slumping approval ratings by investing heavily in the space program, Vazquez said. He also predicted the U.S. president will slowly begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.

Mounting international opposition to the war will take its toll on the U.S. president, who Vazquez promised will appear sickly and strained by late 2006.

“I think this is the worst year for the Bush presidency,” said Vazquez, whose predictions were often interrupted by a steady cough. “Iraq is driving him crazy.”